# duet
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /djuˈɛt/, /duˈɛt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

duet (plural duets)
* (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
* (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
* A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
** 2005, James Henderson, Caribbean and the Bahamas:The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...

#### Synonyms

* (musical composition in two parts): duo
* (pair or couple): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

#### Derived terms

* duetist
* duetlike
* duetter
* duettist
* virtual duet

#### Related terms

* dual
* duo

#### Translations
### Verb

duet (third-person singular simple present duets, present participle duetting or dueting, simple past and past participle duetted or dueted)
* (intransitive) To perform a duet.
** 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277,
    When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
** 1879, George Meredith, chapter 20, in The Egoist‎:He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]
** 2011, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending, Random House Canada, page 45:‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room.
* (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
** 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223,
    Duetting species are typically monogamous.
** 1986, Thomas A. Sebeok, chapter 7, in I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs‎, New York: Springer Science+Business, published 2013, page 87:In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.
* (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
** 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 377
** 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck‎:After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.
* (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
** 1864, Charles Whitehead, “The Stock-Broker”, in Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English‎, volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 23:“My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.
** 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50,
    “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward.
    “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.

#### Usage notes

* In the UK and other Commonwealth countries, the present and past participles of this verb are often spelled with a double T: duetted and duetting

### See also

* solo
* trio
* quartet
* quintet
* sextet
* septet
* octet
* nonet

### Anagrams

* 'tude, -tude, Deut., tude

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duetto or German Duett (itself borrowed from Italian).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dyˈɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: du‧et
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

duet n (plural duetten, diminutive duetje n)
* a duet (musical piece performed by two players or two singers)
* a ballet routine performed by two dancers

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: duet
* → Indonesian: duet
* → West Frisian: duët

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch duet, from Italian duetto or German Duett (itself borrowed from Italian).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈd̪uɛt̪̚]
* Hyphenation: du‧èt

### Noun

duet (uncountable)
* duet (musical piece performed by two players or two singers).

### Further reading

* “duet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʉːət/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ət
* Hyphenation: du‧et

### Verb

duet
* simple past and present perfect of due

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Duett, from Italian duetto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdu.ɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uɛt
* Syllabification: du‧et

### Noun

duet m inan (diminutive duecik)
* (music) duet (group of two musicians)
    Synonym: duo
* (music) duet (piece of music written for two musicians)
    Synonym: duo
* duet (group of two people or things)
    Synonym: duo

#### Declension
### Further reading

* duet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* duet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duetto.

### Noun

duet n (plural duete)
* (music) duet